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Originally Posted by Hackey
Maybe Aarongavey doesn't realize you can make trades in the NHL.
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NHL players that BT has picked up via trade
Alex Chiasson
Dougie Hamilton
Travis Hamonic
Michael Stone
Niklas Backstrom
Shore
Bollig
Smith
Elliott
It seems like we trade for number one dmen, number 4 dmen, 4th line forwards, NHL forwards on their way to the AHL and goalies.
To Jiri's point, even if you are counting all picks, he drafts more dmen than he does forwards vis-a-vis their percentage of the overall roster. I guess one can assume that the 5th round and beyond (where he has 8 forwards and 4) have the same probability of becoming NHL players as rounds 1-3 do.
Last year I would have taken any of the forwards taken betwen 19-30 rather than another dman. I would have possibly traded down and recouped a 2nd rounder rather than taking yet another dman. Jiri you cherry pick the 2015 and 2016 drafts, would you have taken another dman last year with Fox, Kylington, and Anderson already in the system? It defies logic (as evidenced by the fact that most teams do not use such a high percentage of their first 3 round picks on dmen as we did over a 4 year period).
Unless the argument is that the Flames have a balanced system. Perhaps folks think that we have the same percentage of NHL forwards as we do NHL dmen (relative to the number of positions in the lineup), the same percentage of NHL forward prospects as we have NHL dmen prospects. The entire Flames system is unbalanced, a bounty of dmen and a dearth of forwards.
The Flames are 5 points better this year than the year before BT became GM, 5 years ago. They are worse than they were in his first year. 4 years is plenty of time to identify trend lines, be it in drafting and trading priorities or just trajectory of your team. The trend lines for all of those are poor for BT.